STREAM
ADJECTIVES
1000 ─ QUICK of wells, springs, streams, or water: running, flowing
1599 ─ HEADY of a stream or current: impetuous, violent
1656 ─ GURGITIVE belonging to a gulf or stream → obs.
NOUNS
..893 ► GANG the course of a stream → obs.
..955 ► LAKE a small stream of running water; a brook or rivulet → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1138 ► LETCH a stream flowing through boggy land; a muddy ditch or hole; a bog → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1214 ► SIKE → SYKE a small stream of water, esp. one flowing through flat or marshy ground, and often dry in summer → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1300 ► BECK a brook or stream
1300 ► CANEL → CANNEL the natural bed of a stream of water; a watercourse; now ‘channel’ → obs.
1300 ► LAKE-RIFT a gully made by a stream → obs.
1300 ► SIKET a small watercourse or sike → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1350 ► RUNNING a channel in which water may flow; a stream, a rivulet → obs.
1430 ► AA a stream, a watercourse → obs.
1587 ► RUNDLE a small stream or rivulet → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1591 ► ELBOW a sharp bend in the course of a river, stream, road, etc.
1591 ► RIVERLING a small stream or river; a rivulet → obs.
1600 ► VEIN a streamlet or rivulet; a current → obs.
1611 ► RAIN a small stream, brook, or ditch → obs.
1630 ► LYMPH pure water; water in general; a stream → poetic usage
1639 ► KILL a natural waterway, esp. a stream, a creek, a channel → Amer. dial.
1663 ► BRANCH a small stream
1790 ► RIDE a small stream → Eng. dial.
1802 ► HEAD WATERS the streams from the sources of a river
1805 ► BOIL a turbulent swirl or eddy in a stream → Amer. dial.
1814 ► BOGUE a stream or waterway → Amer. dial.
1825 ► LANE a slow-moving, meandering stream or its bed → Sc.
1838 ► VAEDIK a small stream or runnel of water or other liquid; a ditch, drain or open sewer → Sc.
1846 ► REAN a large open ditch; a main artificial watercourse; a very small stream → Eng. dial.
1848 ► BANKER a stream almost overflowing its banks → Aust. & NZ colloq.
1874 ► RANT a stream; a river → Eng. dial.
1875 ► TINE each of two branches of a stream
1879 ► HEAD the source or spring of a stream or river → Eng. dial.
1884 ► BACH → BACHE → BATCH a river or stream; the valley through which a stream flows → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BACKWATER a stream from the sea → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MID-WATER the middle of a stream or of the sea → Sc. (Bk.)
1924 ► TRACE a branch of a stream → Amer. dial.
1927 ► RAISE a rise in the level of a stream; a flood → Amer. dial.
1945 ► LICK a spring or stream → Amer. dial.
1951 ► BLUE HOLE a deep hole in a river or stream → Amer. dial.
1966 ► CATTAIL a small running stream, smaller than a creek → Amer. dial.
1972 ► BORE a small whirlpool or circular eddy in a stream → Amer. dial.
VERBS
1362 ► WALK ON FOOT of a stream: to flow slowly → obs.
1579 ► WARBLE of a small stream: to make melody as it flows; also, of the wind → poetic
1789 ► BICKER to move quickly; of a stream: to ripple, to flow → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1827 ► WALK of a vehicle, a ship, a stream: to go very slowly
1889 ► TAIL of a stream: to flow or fall into
1894 ► WALLOW of a stream: to dry up → Sc.
1911 ► BRATTLE of a stream: to flow tumultuously and noisily → Sc. (Bk.)
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